Microbes have given us some devastating diseases, everything from the Black Death to cholera, syphilis, typhoid and the occasional yeast infection. But our microbial friends have also done us some good....

Michael Woods traces the history of the Hertfordshire village of Codicote in the 14th century: a period which not only saw famine, plague - the Back Death - and war but also marked a sea change in English...

Documentary shedding new light on the cause of the Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe in the 14th century. Scientists and historians have unearthed new evidence that the pandemic cannot...

Documentary shedding new light on the cause of the Black Death, which killed half the population of Europe in the 14th century. Scientists and historians have unearthed new evidence that the pandemic cannot...

Between 1347 to 1351 25 million people in Europe were killed by the plague. The programme looks at the effect of the plague on ordinary people of the time, and at the lasting political, economic and social...